Sfinks w labiryncie. Walter Benjamin i Bruno Schulz w poszukiwaniach utraconego dzieciństwa
Sphinx in a Labyrinth. Walter Benjamin and Bruno Schulz in Search of a Lost Childhood

Summary/Abstract: The vividly diverse works by two outstanding twentieth-century European men of letters: Bruno Schulz – Polish artist and author of prose from Drohobycz, and Walter Benjamin – German philosopher, essayist, resident of Berlin and a cosmopolitan, contain numerous tangible similarities. Those “selected affiliations” are discernible primarily in reference to childhood recollections. In the case of Schulz the topos in question, which in the literature of high modernism achieved the attributes of a separate convention, revealed itself most clearly in Sklepy cynamonowe (The Cinnamon Shops) and in the case of Benjamin – in Berliner Kindheit um 1900. A comparison of these works from this vantage point is the prime interest of the presented essay.

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